Ayahuasca (called yagé, or yajé in Columbia,
and caapi in Brazil) is a brew prepared from segments of a species
of the Banisteriopsis vine, a genus belonging to the Malpighiaceae.
These sections of vine are boiled with a mixture of leaves of various kinds.
The resulting brew contains the hallucinogenic alkaloids harmine, harmaline,
d-tetrahydroharmine, and dimethyltryptamine, or DMT. DMT is very
similar to serotonin, and it has been found that DMT is a component of
normal mammalian metabolic processes, a hallucinogen which is created by
the body. The chemical structures and effects of the hallucinogens
in the brew are very similar to LSD, mescaline or psilocybin.

This brew has been used in the Amazon for thousands of years by shamans
for healing, divination and worhsip. In Quecha, ayahuasca means "the
vine of the dead" or "vine of the souls" (aya spirit/ancestor/dead,
huasca
vine/rope)

The effects of ayahuasca often include an interior sound, which can
trigger a spontaneous burst of imitative vocalizations quite unlike any
conventional human speech or facial contortions. The sound, which
appears to gain in energy the longer it is sustained, can become visible
as if the vibrational wave patterns were in some way affecting light diffraction.
This peculiar wave phenomenon will continue to be generated out of the
mouth and nostrils and will be visible in the surrounding air as long as
the vocalizations are continued.

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